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"The Feast of the Ram" Author: [Peru] Mario Vargas Llosa Publisher: People's Literature Publishing House Original title: La fiesta del chivo
"The Feast of the Ram" Author: [Peru] Mario Vargas Llosa Publisher: People's Literature Publishing House Original title: La fiesta del chivo
Description
Introduction · · · · · ·
Why did Urania return to the land she swore she would never set foot on again after being away from her motherland for 35 years? Why has she been filled with fear since she was 14 years old? Why has she never visited or greeted her father? Facing her aunt's questioning, Urania slowly recounted the painful memories of more than 30 years ago, the intricate political conspiracies, and the secret that ruined her life...
Vargas Llosa uses realistic writing and a three-line narrative structure to describe Urania's recollections of the past, how Trujillo, the dictator of the Dominican Republic, starts his day, and a breathtaking assassination, revealing the mysterious relationship between dictatorship, power, corruption and sex. In 2007, "The Feast of the Ram" ranked second in the "100 Best Spanish Novels from 1982 to 2007", second only to Gabriel García Márquez's "Love in the Time of Cholera".
About the Author · · · · · ·
Mario Vargas Llosa is a famous writer and a world novelist. He is known as the "master of structural realism" and has won many important literary awards around the world, including the Nobel Prize in Literature: Hemingway Prize in 1985, Prince of Spain's Aliturrias Prize in Literature in 1986, Gold Medal of the Americas in 1988, the highest honor in Spanish literature - the Cervantes Prize in Literature in 1994, the Jerusalem Prize in Literature in Israel in 1999, the Menendez Pelayo International Prize in 2000, was elected President of the International PEN in 1976, and won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2010.